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Maeve Doyle's Private View features interviews with artist and individuals who are redefining the art world. Hosted by Art Critic Maeve Doyle, one of London's most active art commentators, the podcast offers endless insights and a deep dive into art news, developments and stirrings in visual culture. Maeve looks for answers in lively conversations with artists, curators, critics, art dealers, gallerists and auction house experts who offer surprising perspectives on the world through their wo ...
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Art in Mayfair is back for a seventh edition, showcasing four weeks of art, fashion and culture across the destination. From art flags, pop-up exhibitions, showcases, walks, talks and events from Bond Street and Savile Row to Mount Street from 10 June to 7 July 2024. Art in Mayfair's podcast series hosted by art critic Maeve Doyle, delves into the minds of the artists taking part and uncovers some of the hidden stories behind the works. Tune in to find out how London's art and fashion scenes ...
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Art in Mayfair is back for a sixth edition, showcasing four weeks of art, fashion and culture across the destination. From art flags, pop-up exhibitions, showcases, walks, talks and events from Bond Street and Savile Row to Mount Street from 12 June to 9 July. Art in Mayfair's podcast series hosted by art critic Maeve Doyle, delves into the minds of the artists taking part and uncovers some of the hidden stories behind the works. Tune in to find out how London's art and fashion scenes are th ...
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Country & Town House’s culture editor, Ed Vaizey, and associate editor, Charlotte Metcalf discuss the week’s cultural offerings with a brilliant edit of what you should be watching, reading, listening to, booking and visiting each week. Their roster of high profile guests adds illuminating insight to the current cultural landscape.
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n conversation with Jessica Brilli ahead of her first UK show, ‘Dreamstate’ at Maddox Gallery. Jessica’s work is a vibrant recollection of mid-20th Century America, inspired by a collection of contemporary amateur photographs discovered by the artist in yard-sales and antiques shops. In this episode, Jessica talks us through her process, the surpri…
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In today's episode, Maeve speaks to multi-disciplinary artist Hormazd Nariewalla. This is an invigorating conversation that takes place at the home of the permanent collection of his work, JP Hackett on Savile Row. Born in India, Nariewalla's work is a mix of collage, print-making and sculpture which originate on the surfaces of antique, vintage, a…
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Today, Maeve speaks to sculptor Pieter Obels. Despite working with Corten steel, Pieter's work seem light and gravity defying. His contribution to this year's Sculpture Trail, titled 'How Soon Is Now' and presented by Opera Gallery, barely seems to touch the ground while it's striking orange hues are set perfectly against the green backdrop of Berk…
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The Art in Mayfair podcast returns for 2024 and in this episode Maeve Doyle speaks to Gavin Turk. Gavin’s sculpture, Figure - a two meter recreation of a rusty nail made of bronze - can be found on this year’s trail, pinned into the pavement on the corner of New Bond Street. In this conversation, Gavin talks us through the nostalgia embedded in Fig…
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In this final edition, we’re talking to two of the Britain’s most passionate advocates for singing in a choir. Ben England and Mark Strachan collaborated during the pandemic on the Self-Isolation Choir when thousands joined online from round the world to sing. Both were awarded British Empire Medals as a result. Today they tell us about Choir of th…
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This week we’re at the new Maddox Gallery on Mayfair’s Berkeley Street, talking to the British-American artist Russell Young about his new exhibition ‘Dreamland’, in which he dissects the American dream and the dark side of fame. Also with us is the renowned art critic and broadcaster Maeve Doyle, Global Artistic Director of the Maddox Gallery Grou…
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This week we’re at Gainsborough's House in Sudbury, Suffolk. We’re always delighted to discover a true gem away from London and this most certainly is one. Housed in the home where the great 18th century portrait and landscape painter artist Thomas Gainsborough grew up, this is now Suffolk’s largest art gallery and a global study centre for Gainsbo…
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We talk to the young American archivist and writer who stumbled across hitherto unused material from Edward VIII’s personal archives and autobiographical notes, including his scribbled opinions about Wallis Simpson. Jane Marguerite Tippett’s new book about, ‘Once a King: The Lost Memoir of Edward VIII’ has been published to much acclaim, for being …
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‘Women in Revolt!’ is an important and exciting new exhibition featuring work by over 100 feminist artists created between 1970 and 1990. Alongside work by well-known artists is work rarely seen before, by women who have been marginalised or left outside the artistic narrative. With us to tell us all about the exhibition are Linsey Young, Curator o…
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We’re at The Coach and Horses in Soho with actor Robert Bathurst, much loved for his roles as David Marsden in Cold Feet, and Mark Taylor in Joking Apart, and with theatre producer Trish Wadley. Robert is reprising his title role in Keith Waterhouse’s Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell and tells us what fun it is to perform in the very venue where the late …
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We’re talking to William Boyd, unquestionably one of our greatest living novelists. He’s also a screenwriter, television writer, playwright and director, who has won multiple accolades and awards along the way, including a BAFTA Television Award for Best Drama Serial of Any Human Heart. Following The Romantic, his latest ‘whole life’ novel, a new b…
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A major survey of 10,000 black Britons has been undertaken by the Black British Voices Project in collaboration with Cambridge University, The Voice, and management company i-Cubed. Maggie Semple, co-founder of i-Cubed, led the research team and Nels Abbbey is a writer, broadcaster and former banker who founded the Black Writer’s Guild and wrote th…
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The prodigious, award-winning novelist talks to us candidly about her life as a novelist since she first published ‘After You’d Gone’ 23 years ago. She tells us how she started writing, her inspiration for ‘Hamnet’ and her most recent published novel ‘The Marriage Portrait’. She describes what it was like to watch ‘Hamnet’ at the RSC and The Garric…
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We talk with two renowned playwrights about their new plays – both on for a short run and neither of them to be missed. Roger McGough, the much-loved author, Mersey poet and presenter of BBC Radio Four’s ‘Poetry Please’, has adapted Molière’s ‘The Hypochondriac’ for The Crucible in Sheffield. It’s already opened to rave reviews, with Edward Hogg st…
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This week we’re talking to two artists inspired by the nature. Emily Young, hailed as Britain’s greatest living female stone sculptor, specialises in using materials from abandoned quarries and Francis Hamel is known for his portraiture and landscape paintings. Emily lives and works mostly in an isolated part of Tuscany, where she free carves in re…
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Acclaimed pianists, Charles Owen and Moscow-born Katya Apekisheva, started the London Piano Festival at Kings Place in 2016 as a way of bringing together pianists from around the world. Pianists tend to practice and play in isolation so it can be a lonely profession and this is a much-loved opportunity for them to come together and share their pass…
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We talk to Sir John Leighton, Director-General of the National Galleries of Scotland, about Edinburgh’s superb new Scottish Galleries at the National, which will open on September 30th after £38.62 million worth of investment. The ten, light-filled rooms, offering majestic views over Edinburgh, will showcase 130 works of historic Scottish art by ar…
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We talk to Sarah Sands, the journalist and former editor of The Evening Standard and BBC Radio Four’s Today programme. She’s just released her new book ‘The Hedgehog Diaries, A Story of Faith Hope and Bristle’. The humble hedgehog turns out to be a symbol of the doughty survivor in politics and in battle – particularly in Ukraine’s war with Russia.…
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As he steps down after serving two full terms as Chair of the V&A, Nicholas Coleridge looks back on ten years of prodigious expansion under his watch and looks ahead to tell us all about the hugely anticipated Chanel show which opens on 16th September. He recounts how V&A Dundee is bringing new life to the city and explains how the transformation o…
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On our last podcast of the summer, we’re talking to Pippa Shirley, Director of Waddeson Manor and to Lorraine Lecourtois, Head of Public Exhibitions at Wakehurst, about two of Britain’s most beautiful outdoor spaces, both showcasing some wonderful art. Waddesdon Manor is the Renaissance-style chateau built in Buckinghamshire by Baron Ferdinand de R…
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In this episode of Art In Mayfair 2023, host Maeve Doyle speaks to self-taught artist and sculptor, and renowned modern furniture maker, Johnny Hawkes. Johnny’s piece, Sphelix is part of the Mayfair Sculpture Trail and is outside Fenwick’s. At the start of 2023, Hawkes began developing his sculpture “SPHELIX” on a monumental scale which he says is …
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In this episode host Maeve Doyle speaks to Dario Vargas. Dario is a Colombian-born contemporary fine artist whose work is currently on show in the Luxury Italian menswear brand, Canali, New Bond Street Dario’s work draws influence from the Renaissance and Baroque periods to cast a connection with our behaviour and psychology in the modern world. We…
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In this episode of Art In Mayfair 2023, host Maeve Doyle speaks to self-taught artist and sculptor, and renowned modern furniture maker, Johnny Hawkes. Johnny’s piece, Sphelix is part of the Mayfair Sculpture Trail and is outside Fenwick’s. At the start of 2023, Hawkes began developing his sculpture “SPHELIX” on a monumental scale which he says is …
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In this episode host Maeve Doyle speaks to Dario Vargas. Dario is a Colombian-born contemporary fine artist whose work is currently on show in the Luxury Italian menswear brand, Canali, New Bond Street Dario’s work draws influence from the Renaissance and Baroque periods to cast a connection with our behaviour and psychology in the modern world. We…
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‘Dear Earth’ is the show at the Hayward Gallery on London’s south Bank that represents a coming together of 15 global artists who are responding to the crisis our planet is facing. We talk to Rachel Thomas, the chief curator and two of the artists exhibiting there, Ackroyd & Harvey. Ackroyd & Harvey have contributed a series of portraits of environ…
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We’re chatting about the Royal Shakespeare Company’s summer programme with Erica Whyman, who was Acting Artistic Director of the RSC till June, the director of the smash hit play ‘Hamnet’ and the Lead Judge of the specially commissioned 37 plays. We also talk to Tanya Katyal, playing Rani, in the new production at the Swan of Tanika Gupta’s ‘The Em…
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We pick out the best of the summer’s festivals, including Byline Festival, Charleston’s Festival of the Garden, Cheltenham Music Festival, Henley Festival and The Idler Festival. Jo Bausor, who’s been at the helm of Henley Festival for over a decade, tells us about the impressive line-up at Britain’s only boutique black tie festival. Acts performin…
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In the first episode of Art In Mayfair 2023, host Maeve Doyle speaks to artist Bob & Roberta Smith RA - the artist behind this year's flags which is bringing a colourful splash to the streets around the Royal Academy. He discusses the project, A Puzzle 4U, which plays with letter patterns and the construction of words and sentences. Bob also shares…
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Art in Mayfair is back for a sixth edition, showcasing four weeks of art, fashion and culture across the destination. From art flags, pop-up exhibitions, showcases, walks, talks and events from Bond Street and Savile Row to Mount Street from 12 June to 9 July. Art in Mayfair's podcast series hosted by art critic Maeve Doyle, delves into the minds o…
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We’re talking about the first ever stage adaptation of Ken Loach’s and Paul Laverty’s multi-award winning 2016 film I, Daniel Blake. The production, which is touring the UK, opened at Northern Stage Newcastle to rave critical reviews and passionate audience reactions. Dave Johns, who adapted it for the stage, played Daniel in the original film, win…
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We’re talking to Louise Minchin, Chair of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and one of her five co-judges, the Nigerian-born, award-winning novelist Irenosen Okojie MBE. Louise is an endurance triathlete and the well-known journalist, who presented BBC Breakfast for 20 years and was one of BBC News 24’s main anchors. Now in its 28th year and started b…
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We’re talking to curator Carol Jacobi about ‘The Rossettis’, an exhibition of over 150 works at Tate Britain, celebrating the romance and radicalism of Dante Gabriel, Christina and Elizabeth née Siddall. It’s the first ever retrospective of Dante Gabriel Rossetti at the Tate and the largest exhibition of his work in two decades, as well as being th…
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We’re discovering what’s on at London’s Design Biennale which opens on the 1st June at Somerset House. Now in its fourth edition, the Biennale sets out to celebrate and showcase innovation in design that has the power to make our world a better place. Victoria Broackes, the Director, explains that this year’s title and theme, which is ‘The Global G…
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We talk to Hassan Akkad, who came to the UK as an asylum seeker from Syria and who earned a BAFTA for his BBC documentary ‘Exodus: Our Journey to Europe’, which used real footage from his journey from Syria. Hassan tells us about his short film, ‘Matar’, which tells the story of a day in the life asylum-seeker Matar as he tries to survive in London…
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Dafydd Jones’s photographs of Oxford’s ‘bright young things’ catapulted him to fame and earnt him a global reputation for capturing the essence of a riotous world of upper-class decadence during the Thatcher era. Tina Brown was quick to scoop Dafydd up when she was editor of Tatler, and on today’s podcast he talks about his new book ‘England: The L…
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